Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1909, Page 1

"¢ INSURGENTS ARE ) L | ’ L . THE OMAHA BEE g0es to the homes—-is read by th women-—egells goods for advertisers. WEATHER FORECAST, For Nebraska—Rain at night For Jowa——Cloudy For weather roport see page a OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, OVEMBER 26, SINGLE COPY TWO CE GAINING GROUND Revolution Posse on of All East Coast Except Greytown. THAT PLACE CLOSELY BESIEGED General Toledo's Army is Hemmed in | by Land and Sea. WIRES AGAIN FAIL TO WORK United States Unable to Communicate with Its Officials. EXECUTIONS NOT e Department Canncn and Groce § Been Reparded as P oners of War. BU WASHINGTON, 2.~The aguan revolutionists are gaining @ according to advices recelved here ‘ the commander of the crulser Des Molnes, now In Nicaraguan waters. The dispatch adds that American Interests are belng protected and that the blockade by the rev- | olutionary forces Is effective, WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%,The State and Navy departments got | ntouch with Nicar- agua overnight through the gunboat Des Moines, ‘which has been plylng between Port Limon on the Gulf cgast of Costa Rica and Greytown, which is the southern port of Nicaragua, on the same coast Captain Shipley, commander of the Des Molnes, reported briefly on the conditions on the east coast of Nlcaragua, which Is entirely In the possession of the insurgent forces, with the exception of Greytown proper, where General Toledo of President elaya's army is hemmed in by land and ea by the revolutionists. The only American warship on the west coast of Nicaragua 18 the Vicksburg, ly- ing off Corinto, but no word has come from that ship in the last two days, inter- rupted telegraphic communication being the only explanation offered. It has got to be & matter of common note that the telegraph fails in ‘the most perfect weather, when the United States govern- ment tries to communicate with one of its diplomatic or comsular agents in time of revolution In Central America. That the explanation to be made by the Nicaraguan government of the conditions under which the two Americans, Groce and Cannon, were executed as forecasted in the news dispatches from Central Amer- fca will be unsatisfactory to the state de- partment is probable. From any point the offictal view is that the men were free from the charge of being spies and were entitled to be regarled as prisoners of war and therefore not subject to that penalty., mfl.sh warre eaptured in Costa poried, the act was in clear violation of Costa Rican soverelgn- ity mnd may easily invo've Costa Rica in war'with the Zelayan government if the American government turns to Costa Rica for redres Fighting Near Blueficlds. MOBILE, Nov. 25.—Officers of the stewmer Bluefields arriving today from Port Limon, Costa Rica, say it was re- ported at Port Limon that fighting was golng on in the rear of Bluefields, As the Bluefields was leaving, a large American erulser was making Into Port Limon. Americans Captured in Battle. COLON, Nov. 25.~It is stated in reliable quarters here that Groee and Cannon, the Americans who were executed recently, were shot and burled by order of President Zelaya. They were with General Cham- orro and were captured during a fight near Colorado Junction. Great Indignation is felt here over the executions. The captain of a boat who pald a visit to President Estranda at Greytown yes- terday says that General Chamorro's block- ade Is effective. A Weavy sea 18 running, which he says prevents the escape of the Zelayan forces. Greytown is devold of provisions and the Zelayan troops are ex- pected to capltulate shortly. Two hundred deserters from the government forces east of Rama jolned General Estrrada yester- day. The men were in a famished condi- tion, Since the announcement was made that the Amerlcan government had recognized the revolutionists ethusiasm here has, be- come more intense. Volunteers from the plantations and gold mines are eagerly of- fering thelr services to General Estrada. British O wer at Bluetie! COLON, Nov. %.—A wireless dispatch trom Bluetields, Nicaragua, dated Novem- ber M, recelved today, says: “The British cruiser Seylla arrived here Sunday and leaves today. “Commander Bertram 8. Thesiger of the @ruiser made an official visit to Provisional President Estrada Tuesday.” WASHINGTON, Nov. %.—The visit of the British crulser Scylla to Bluefields, Nica- ragua, and the call of its commander, Bertram 8! Thesiger, on Senor Estrada, the provisional president, is not understood at the British embassy. Inquiry there to- night met with thé statement that no ad- vices of the warship's Il had been re- cetved, and in the absence of such advices it is conjectured that the vessel put in merely to discover whether British inter- ests were in jeopardy. Engaged to Two; Kills Himself loJ. Man Oon;h- Suicide Because of Threatened Breach of Promise Suit. VINTON, Ia, Nov. %.—(Special.)—Har- @ssed with threats of breach of promise sults, and fearing lest he would be prose- cuted by two young women whom, it is alleged, he had become engaged to, Alva Jewell, Mving five miles north of here, committed sulclde some time this after- noon by shooting himselt. His body was found in an outbullding, and when dis- vovered was still warm. The young man left the house in the morning, saying that he was going rabbit hunting, Because of his moroseness during recent daye, when he did not return for dinner the family started a search for Rim. It is sald that Jewell had made love nd been accepted by two young women Urbana, both of whom, when they found lover was bethrothed to another, hired & lawyer and threatened (o sue. L] s in Nicaragua Are in| 'Train Burns, but | | All Passengers Declared Safe |Three Trainmen Killed and Two Others Fatally Injured in Spectacular Wreck. SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 2.—Thres trainmen dead, two othefs belleved to be tatally injured, five out of six cars on a Great Northern passenger train destroyed by fire, but every passenger safe, is the | summing up of a wreck on the Northern Pacific railroad, about a mile from Lind, | shortly after midnight, due to the collision between Great Northern Train No. 4 and a “helper’ engine. The dead include Engineer L. Reaman, | Fireman Jacob Spangler and Pllot Tyler of the passenger train. The engineer and firemen on the “helper” engine are believed to be fatally hurt. The accldent occurred elther through misunderstanding or disregard of orders. The Great Northern passenger train from “e coast was traveling over the Northern cific track on account of floods and thouts on the Great Northern line. “was due In Lind shortly after 1 o'clock a8 morning. The “wild” engine started ;urn\. and no sooner had it left the station | than the operator knew a terrible mistake | had been made, but had no means of cor- | reeting it. About a mile from Lind the engine and the passenger came in collision. According to Engineer Rush, who had | pulled the train to Prosper, but who was | riding on the train from that point as a passenger, every passenger escaped except | one, who only slightly injured. |Court Prevents Third Marriage of Ohio Girl Mrs. Larcum, 19 Years Old, Divorced Monday, Planned Wedding for Thanksgiving. DEFIANCE, O., Nov. 2%.—Too much pub- liclty spolled for the present the plans for the’ marriage of Mrs. Bessle Sheck-Wil- liams-Larcum, aged 19, an Intended Thanksgiving event. The girl was divorced Monday in probase court from her second husband, Edward Larcum, and through a newspaper reporter confided to the public that she intended to be married at onee to Benjamin Hill, who had been a boarder at her parents’ home and had advanced money to pay for the divorce proceedingt When Hill applied yosterday to the same fused, and he w informed that the for- mal decree of divorce would be withheld while the court looked further into the clrcumstances. . The girl was first married at the age of 16 to Percy. Whliame.of Cincinnati, and after a. divorce married Edward J. Larcum of Despler in January last. Hunter Killed Aiding Friend John Krenzer TI-_w Pull William Gift Out of Mud with Gun Barrel. While holding the barrel of a gun In the hands of Willlam Gift of 1554 North Seventeenth street, who was stuck in the mud In a slough near the Illinols.Central railroad tracks in East Omaha, John H. Krenzer of 1200 North Twenty-first street was shot through the heart by the accl- dental discharge of the gun. Krenzer is 17 years of age. He and his younger brother, Tommy Krenzer, aged 13; William Gift and Leonard Neauman were out hunting. They left thelr homes at 10 o'clock In the morning and were on thelr way back. While wading through the slough Gift Gift got stuck In the mud. He asked for assistance, which was offered by John Krenzer. Krenzer eould not quite reach Gift, so held out the end of his gun barrel that Krenzer might Jpull him out, Krenzer took hold and began pulling, when the gun was accldentally discharged. The shot struck Krenzer in the heart. He died instantly and fell in his tracks. Gift, who was holding the muszle of the gun, was more than horrified. With ex- treme exertion he got out of the mud and helped carry his vietim to dry land. The Krenzer boys are well known in Omaha. Their father, John B. Krenzer, has been employed as a mechanic In the Union Pacific shops for a number of years. Gift lives with his parents at 1564 North Seventeenth streat and the other youth, Leonard Neauman, lives at 180 North Seventeenth street. The body was turned over to the coroner of Councll Bluffs, Krenzer's parents were completely grief-stricken when they learned of the sudden death of their son. SPEECH GONE TWO MONTHS Operation Restores Pow. Man Who Was in Fight. ST. LOUIS, Nov. %.—His tongue unfet- tered after a two-months silence, Monroe Prits talked as cheerfully as a child in telling today for the first time of the as- had robbed him of speech. In a road house mear East St. Louls, Pritz was struck with a billlard cue by a man who was angry because he had acted as & peacemaker In a fight. There was 100 witness to the encounter and his friends, finding him unable to tell them anything about the occurence were at a loss to ac count for his injury. A trephining operation was performed at the oty hospital here which at once re- lleved the pressure on the braln and re- stored the ower of speech. DE ARMOND FIRE COMES FROM DEFECTIVE WIRE BUTLER, Mo., Nov. %.—It is now be- lieved the fire which caused the death of Congressman David A. De Armond and his G-year-old grandson, David A. De Armond, r. last Tuesday, started in the attic of the Do Armond home and avas caused by detective electric wiring. At first it seemed probable that the fire originated in the room In which the congressman and the lttle boy were sleeplng court for a marriage license it was re-| sault which, resulting in'a skull fracture, | MINE IS SEALED T0 CHECK FIRE Counci] of Experts at Cherry, IlL, Determines Upon This Course After Long Discussion. COAL PILLARS ARE BURNING It May Be Several Weeks Before Shaft Can Be Reopened. Official Find that Its Only Effeoct is to Fill Lower Level. NO MORE BODIES ARE FOUND Generally Conceded that No Chance of Living Men Bet in the St. Paul Mine Now Exists, CHERRY, I, Nov. 2%.—Detalls of a meeting held here early today between the entire state mining board, McDonald of the Chicago fire department and W. W. Taylor, general suuperintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company's mines, were made known this afternoon. Battallon Chlef McDonald, after an in- spection of the work being accomplished by his men who had been throwing water in the east bottom of the mine for more than a week, advised tho state mine in- spectors end the representatives of the coal company that the water being thrown into the mine was not reaching the fire and that he saw np use of throwing iIn any more water, as it was merely filing up the third vein. Bodies of the known dead In that veln are already Inaccessible owing to the quantlty of water already thrown into the mine and to increase this amount of water, McDonald sald, would delay recovery of bodles indifeinitely. Mr. Willlams of the Urbana rescue sta- tion, who had been keeping careful note of the gases formed in the mine, reported that the fire had extended to the coal pillars and was forming dangerous gases and making it perilous for rescuers to continue at work. After considerable discussion and a care- ful going over of all phases of the situa- tion it was unanimously agreed by the meeting that the only thing that would make possible ultimate recovery of the bodles in the mine was to seal up both the main shaft and the alr shaft and keep them sealed until the cutting off of the alr smothred the fire. The shafts were thereupon sealed. Bat(s with Fire. After more than 160 bodies had been discovered In the mine, early yesterday ef- {torts to carry them to the surface were abandoned while a battle was begun to check a fire which again threatened the malri shaft. Yesterday flames from fire in the segond vein, 310 feet below the surface, had swept fifty‘feet up the main shaft. Then the fire was forced back. Mine Manager Taylor declared that the destruction of the main shaft is at all times imminent, and with it will go the only possiviiity of removing bodies. That no men survive in the mine now is generally conceded, even by the most optimistic. The only part of the mine as yet unex- plored and in which living men possibly could be found Is the east working of the second veln, at the entrance to which the fire is burning flercely. Twice rescuing parties that have ventured past the fire area have been temporarily cut off by these flames and rescued with difficulty. No further attempt to venture into it will be made until the fire is extinguished, which may be a work of day May Amend Mining Laws. SPRINGFIELD, Iil, Nov. 4.—As a result of the mine fire at Cherry, Governor De- neen may incorporate in his call for a spe- clal session of the legislature, to be held in December, a request that the state min- ing laws be amanded to provide that fire- proof mine shafts be bullt in all mines. The tentative plan would call for shafts built of concrete and steel instead of tim- |ber, ana the removal of all mine stables |from underground to the surface. | Governor Deneen today told a delegation of officers of the State Federation of La- bor and of the United Mine Workers of America that he would submit their de- mands for greater safety In mines to the newly appointed State Mining commission. |He added that it the commission could |formulate specific amendments to the min- |ing laws that would be desirable, he would Incorporate the recommendations in his call for the speclal session of the legisla- ture. Cruiser Ready to Sail for the South {Four Hundred Marines Prepared to Go to Nicaragua on Short Notice. | PHILADELPHIA, Nov. %.—With its hold |stored with provisions and ammunition the United States crulser Prairie lles at the Philadelphla navy yard today ready to sall for Panama or Nicaragua. Four hun- {dred marines who were to be carrfed by |the crulser to Caribbean waters are await- |ing the signal to start. Several weeks ago orders were received at the navy yard from the Navy depart- ment at Washington to have the Prairie |ready to transport marines to the Isthmus of Panama in December. After the Nicar- aguan incldent, in which two Amerlcans were shot, orders were received from Washington to advance the sailing time |and the crulser probably will leave on | saturday. | Meanwhile preparations are being made |at the navy yard for a review of sallors |and marines by Secretary of the Navy Meyer. The secretary will arrive here to- morrow and the review will be held in the afterncon. The marine band will come from Washington to take part in the re- view. Twelve Places, YANKTON, Nov. 2.—(Special)~Charlos Jackson, whose home is at Hydro, Okla., and who travels for thy Enid Nursery com- pany, Oklahoma, is In the hospital here with ‘his right leg fractured in twelve Pplaces, the result of a bad fali on an iy walk. Jackson is over 50 years of age and the physicians consider his case a very #erious one indeed. Litte hope is enter- tained of the patidwt ever using the lmb again. WATER FAILS T0 REACH FIRE: Battalion Chief | & .mb‘,'";. Yoy T :\ \\v"(\‘\:\“\l Mm»fl"‘jfi: T From the Minneapolis Journal o und- city \CURZON NOT 1IN DEB:: be- len’s Former Viceroy of India Attacke!}5 Sudden Illnes 7y fooft LORD ASHBOURNE IN HIS oy che va- Noted Unfonist Makes Attack Iof Budget and Defends Right fross Lords to Withhold Their ) 'na B © o reray onsent. B LONDON, Nov. 2%.—Although this the fourth day of the budget debat the absence of Lord Curzon, who b a sudden indisposition was to havi d tinued the uniontst attack upon the 11 measure, detracted somewhat from tt ular interest, there was little falling the attendance when the House of met this afternoon. The benches again were crowdec peers, members of the House of Co were gathered about the throne, anc esses, diplomats and other disting persons filled the galleries, The extension of the time for deba-(Spe- ayed Roye with Gov. Stubbs Kansas Executive and Railroad Vice President Will Go Over Line Together. — on the Menu. how h{ TOPEKA, Nov. 2.—Governor Stubbs vidual AyrpR HE: and Vice President C. F. Clarke of the |vidual ICAN SERVICES LD Missourl Pacific effected a compromise| Dr. today with reference to the Improvements | the liident, Viee President and Other in the Central Branch after an exciting A, :"l" hignitaries Attend Speeial Exers and heated discussion. The governor will | harni o ), not ask for a recelver if the company |pomy CI%€® At St Patrickls males the following improver ents: whei b The Missouri Pacific to spend $75,000 in | astr the Tentral branch, in 1910 and lay 160 miles ;"Eb ASHINGTON, Nov. 2%.—Presideht Taft of new elghty-flve pound rails and 140 |fore Sk od ettt CRONAE the | his family had a genuine Thanks- Governor Stubbs and Mr. Clarke will go|hongig dinner today. In addition to the over the line next week to agree on the |°F §mmoth turkey which had been sent to improvements. The governor is & practical rafiroad builder himselt and he can determine with some certainty the real condition of the road by the personal inspection. DRINK QUESTION PERSONAL, DECLARyOY MINISTER give opportunity for more of the iords to be heard and many maiden speeches will be made. Lord Revelstoke, who has been a member of the second chamber for twelve yeers, made his first speeeh in the House of Lords this week. Lord Ashbourne, who has been a mem- ber of several unionist cabinets, took Lord Curzon's place In reopening the debate, and while many were disappointed at the fallure of the former viceroy of India to speak, the visitors heard an orator aimost equally notable. Lords a w’- Lord Ashbourne contgnded there was no authority on constitutionat: history that dis- puted the right of the lords to act accord- ing to their -discretion in accepting the budget. This year's budget, by presenting a va- riety of bills within its covers, sought for the first time in the history of the budgets to go far beyond the scope of providing revenue to meet the annual expenditures, he sald. He declared the government had performed an unconstitutional act im tacking on the budget blil a measure for the taxa- tion of undeveloped land. Agalnst the licensing clauses, which, after the rejection of the licensing bill, appeared here In a worse form, he also held was obvious tack- ing. He added that evidences of the unrest caused by the budget blll were everywhere. Consols had dropped, he sald, and untold millions of capital had been driven abroad. Of what use, he asked, was the House of Lords, if, when the time for aetion came, it could not act?’ Lord Balfour of Burleigh, a unionist free trader and member of the former unionist cabinet, after attacking the budget, ad- mitted, that while the lords had never In 80 many words surrendered their right of interference, usage had established that the House of Commons was supreme in matters of finance, Mrs. Roosevelt 1s Back from Europe Accompanied by Miss Ethel She Goes at Once to Oyster Bay. NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter, Miss Ethel, returned today from Europe. Mrs. Roose- velt's step-daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Long- worth, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson and | Collector of the Port Willlam Loeb, jr., met the travelers at the pler. They will go from here to the Roosevelt residence at Oyster Bay. {H undreds Trapped in Japanese Mine |Heavy Loss of Life Feared as Re- sult of Explosion in a Coal Shaft, TOKIO, Nov. %.—Heavy loss of life is teared as the result of an explosion today in a ccal mine at Onoura, Eukoko province. Fifteen men. are known to have perished, while 223 miners are entombed in the | working |OIL OPERATORS WANT RELIEF n-tf table at the White House dining room. the president's family except Robert, | Oret}White House by Horace Vose of Wes- BLA" ® L. and the fifty-pound mince pie by the bakers of New York City e was a twenty-six-pound “billy 'po ,"* sald to be the largest and plumpest trapped In the Georgla woods, on JoM s at school at New Haven, dined Rev. Leonard W. §nyder Points Out |8 Wi .- Prigt] pan-American Thanksgiving service Kills Himself “Goodby,” He Cries to Roommate and Leaps from Third-Story Window, CHICAGO, Nov. %.—Eluding his room- mate and shouting a frantic “goodbye,” ‘Willlam J. McCormick, - 81 years old, a | student. at the Moody Biblical institute here jumped from a third story window of the institute dormitory today and dled while being taken to a hospital Strange actions on the young man's part for somo days had been noticed, and his | room mate, J. L. Osborne, had been asked by ‘the school authorities to watch him. MeCormick reitred late and Osborne seeing his asleep, layed down beside him, only to | be awakened by the shouted farewell ‘as | the student plunged from the window to his death. Close Guard for Coeok’s Records Secretary Lonsdale Sails for Copen- hagen with Bulky Package of Documents. in the North pole controversy was begun today with the departure of the data and reports which Dr. Frederick A. Cook com- plled in the arctic, for Denmark, where they will be submitted to the University of Copenhagen as proof of Dr. Cook's assertion that he reached the north pole on April 21, 1908, The records were taken abroad by Waiter Lonsdale, private secretary of the explorer, who salled on the steamship United States | for Copenhagen. The documents bulked | 1arge ana Mr. Lonsdale sald that he would | keep them under careful guard until they were placed in the hands of Dr. Torp, rector of the Copenhagen university. The records and reports contain about 30,000 words and the university authorities | probably will be several weeks going over | them. ‘ | CHILE THREATENS BOYCOTT | May Refuse to Buy Ameriean Goods | Unless Alsop Claim is With- draw BANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 2.—The attitude of the United States government in the matter of the Alsop claim held by the | United States against Chile is producing an effect upon the business of the country. | Chilean buyers are cancelllng orders for | American products pending a. decision in | the case., | 1QUIQL , Chile, Nov. %—The popular | ere is that the Alsop claim of the | tates against Chile is unjust. A/ | public meeting will be held probably on | SBaturday at which it will be proposed to | boyeott American products unless the United States desists from pressing the | claim. | thid ‘morning in St. Patrick's Roman Catho- lic church was attended by President Taft, Vice President Sherman and several m:-m bers of the cabinet. Cardinal Gibbons and Mgr. Falconlo. apostolic delegate to thg United States, were present. The members of the cdbinet spent the day quietly here. g Throughout the city the day is belng ob- served in the customary way. All the de- partments of the govermment, the banks and practically all of the stores in the city are closed. Dinner for Former Prisoners. That Captain Joseph F. Bhipp, former sheriff of Chattanooga, and his compan- lons, who are serving jall sentences in- flicted by the supreme court of the United States for contempt of that high tribunal, have a leglon of friends in their Tennessee home was attested today. These friends saw to it that the former sheriff and his fellow Tennessceans w.re provided with a turkey dinner of lavish proportions. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.,, Nov. 2.—Salva- tion Army workers today found the wife and children of Henry H. Padgett in destl- tute circumstances. Padgett is one of the codefendants with Captain Shipp, now con- fined in the District of Columbia jail on a contempt crarge. Mrs. Padgett and her children were dependent for a limited Thanksglving dinner on the bounty of a nearby grocery and the Salvation Army Las started & fund to keep the famlily in NEW YORK, Nov. 2%.—Anotner chapter [tread until the husband completes his sen- of the tence. Frankfurters is 0ld Tom’ ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2.—Frankfurters and sauerkraut accompanied by bolled cabbage and potatoes defeated berry sauce in a referendum vote at the St. Louls workhouse today. As.a conse- quence the toothsome American bird was not in evidence at dinner. In contrast to the workhouse was the quarantine station. Here an average of twenty-five pounds of turkey was served to each inmate, there being only one of them—Mong Wing, a leper. He is the only leper in this part of the world and there- tore perforce dined alone. He had also the usual “trimmings” and some celer which he had planted and cultivated him- self. The 700 insane asylum patients ate spring lamb. Half Million Turkeys in Gotham. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—More than 0,000 Thanksgiving turkeys were sizzling today in the ovens of as many homes, whils hotels, restaurants and charitable institu- tions wero packed with holiday diners. The Salvation Army announced through Colonel Willlam A. Mcintyre that it was looking for & hall full of “gentlemen who have not only stepped off the water wagon, but have lost all hope of regaining & seat thereon.” The Bowery mission chose today to open its regular 1 o'clock-in-the-morning winter bread line and gave a dinner to"1,000 waifs of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Astor entate gave & dinner to 500 newsboys Many brokerage and banking houses sent | out breakfasts to the poor. ‘Berwyn Aviato r Takes Wife: Quits Airship for Fireside k"& DINNER BIC AFFAIR| Eoth Turkey, 'Possum and Pie | turkey and cran- DAY OF GENUINE JOY IN OMAHA Thanksgiving Finds People Healthy and Happy and is Observed with Real Spirit, ‘ SPRING-LIKE WEATHER IS A HELP Through Bright Sky and Warm Air Nature Bestows Smile. | INDOCR AND OUT THE FESTIVAL IS Devout Give Thanks in Religious Observance of the Day. VIGOROUS YOUTH RUNS AND PLAYS Even the Pork Poultry Block and Fat Give Forth Freshness of the Cheer- ful See. to Seanon. Tt was a day of genuine thanksglving In Omaha. And busy commerce paused to ob- serve It. The weather—spring-like In its balmy, clear atmospherc—toned the spirits to & high key and the Groat Human Fam- 1ly, or that portion of It in this eity, partook of festal feasts and engaged in devout worship and participated In out-of-door exerclse with a vim and vigor characteris- tic of a healthy, happy people. That aspect of Thanksgiving day from which the name ftself s derived, was not ignored In Omaha, many churches holding services of praise and gratitude and these services were particularly im- pressive among those denominations to whom the day means much {n an historieal way. But there was opportunity for all who felt llke observing the day In other than a gastronomieal way, so to act. One sermon with partieular reference to the history and meaning of Thanksglving |day was delivered by Rev. L. O. Baira, | pastor of St. Mary's Avenue Congres tional church, who oc | Grace Lutheran chu eral union services of the day was held. | *“As Christmas 18 the feast of the nativity lof Christ,” sald Dr. Baird, “and as the | Fourth of July is the birthday celebration i«r the American nation, so Thanksgiving | day is the birthday holiday of Puritanism. |1 am here to say some words concerning Puritanism and the Purltan, | So with All Great Events, “Just as at the birth of Christ, there | were the wise men who rejolced and the | people who wondered and the Herod who | Bcoffed, so it has been with other great |events and facts at their inception and afterwards. “It has become the fashion to indulge n much easy abuse of the Puritan. To call {a thing ‘puritanical’ 1s to damn it; to call a statute a blue law' Is to kill it. And all this abuse, all this unfounded criticlsmds entirely unjustifiable, } “I do not \want, te return to witch hang- —there never were any witeh burnlngs ew England. Nor do 1 wish to return |to the intolierance which exiled Roger Wil |liams; nor to the fake biue laws which are much talked but most of which as ex- ampled were never In any statute book. | “These references ns commonly made are (the exaggerations of carleature. And what |basts they have In face were the excesses upled the pulplt at . where one of sev- {necessary to a primal state, It is true that their ways wiie rigorous, but thelr hearts were stupcudous. The easy golng |eritic seated In his armchalr under sn electric light in a steam heated flat seems to forget the drapery of these rugged men was cut from the cloth of their day. | “Do you judge a kchool by its dunces or |by its wise pupils? . | "“Do you rate men at thelr best or thelr |worst averages? Shall we discount Peter |afier Peutecost because he had lied once and sworn once?” | Analylizes Popular Charges. | Dr. Baira then went on 10 analyze many popular charges against the Puri- tans In New England. He referred to |witch burning, now well known by the educated never to have occurred in Amer- Ica, “There were all told thirty-one executions or witehcraft In New England,” sa'd re, and this was but In the fury of the de- lusion which swept across from the old | world. Prior to the Ma sachuset's ou braa'c th e wer 000 put to death In ngland, 5,000 in Germany, 100,000 in Franc:—al) for the same cause, | *“Da you er hear anything about witeh craft in England? Do you ever hear about it in Germany? In France? “Four years later we ¢¢ In New Eng- land the whole community join In a public expression of humility and penitence.’ Seated with Rev. Mr. Baird before the | sermon were Rev. W. I '0dd of the Third Presbyterian church, M. L. Melick of the {church in which the services were held, |Dr. Ball of the Parkvale Congregational and W. S. Fulton of the Westminster Presbyterian. Members of the Hanscom Park Methodist Bpiscopal church al-o took |part in the service AMERICA'S Sine Qua Nom of ern Civiliastion, CHRISTIANITY HOPE Its Influence Mo { | Unlon Thanksgiving services were held by the First Christian, Kountze Memorla’ and First Baptist church the First Baptist I church, Twenty-ninth and Harney st 8 Rev. J. M y of the First Christian | pre Rev. J. W. Conley |ot aead the scripture lesson alm, and prayer was led Hummon of Kountze entfal feature of our Tranks- givings on this day is that we live in the civilization of Appomattox, rather than | that of Troy sald Dr. Kersey. “Achiles, victorlou over Hector, dragged the dead | voay hie conquered foe thriece around | the walls of Troy. Grant, 3000 years later, gave to the conquered Lee the benediction | |of a Christlan civilizetion to go and re- | | | nabitate their devastated mes and join | Ask Modification of Leases with In-| BROKEN BOW, Neb., Nov. 25.—(Speclal.) | trlp before settling on their farm near|with the victors in effact the vestiges diaus, Owing to Decrease | =Prot. Ulrich Sorenson, of acroplane fame, | Berwyn. | of war for the glorification of a Christian in Price, 1Mhn~= remarkable drop through the alr of i As the aviator carefully placed the license | clvilization and the betterment of humans b \ inside of his coat pocket, he remarkea: |ty PAWNEE, OklL, Nov. %.—Oil operators | 3500 feet will bé remembered, has given UP| “Yes, I'm going to quit exploring the atr, | Tt Is for such possibilities that we should of Ossge, Washington and Tulsa counties | aerial navigation and, after Thanksgiving, | gor o time, at least, 1t wouldnt he square D¢ hAnkful We should be further hanie at a conference here yesterday with the | will settle on earth for an indefinite per- |to the little girl if I Aidn't cut it out ang |ful that the church Is not losing its grip government Indian commissioner de- | lod and become a humble tiller of the 8oll. | take to something on a safer basls, Under. |°% God's world, whatever feonoclasts may manded amendments to the leasing regula- | The cause of this change became ap- stand, 1 don't mean to say I am through | }8im. Th urch of God has a stronger tions of the interior department, which |parent at the court house yesterday, when |with 1t for good; if J could afford to put DO'd 00 humanity today than ¢ before, Wil remove the condition that requires |the professor was caught red-handed in |the right kind of a motor in my machine | T008Y #0.000.000 Christizns ar uhiping that they pay §1 an acre annually on|the act of taking out a marriage It |1 would undoubtedly take another whirl at | "® Y L In ibe Aipseanth seniney leased lands not developed. for himselt and Miss Cora Talbot Of | the game, as the danger in that case would |0 ¢ PCOP!* Mo Chilations shas n il The operators asked for permanent -re- | Berwyn. | be reduced tos minimum. But g0od motors, | 5ol cer N8 centurics since the Gospel of Mef from paying royalties to the Indiane| The wedding ceremony was quietly per- |such as 1 want, cost money, and it wuh"'f{'\" Chiiet was givep W the wattd on ihe basis of 41 cents & barrel for oll, | formed at the residence of the bride's|probably be some time before I am able | prowperitn ot oor poo kil for the proat because they asserted the market price for people on Thankegiving morning and | thoroughly o equip an aeroplane on my |Omane Wa seaun Lol homs ety of oll bad been reduced (o % cents & barrel. |the youug couple Wil take & short|own ines” g 0N N0 LAARhESY dor the Pm.k. the chief book of all the worid, e T e smm— e T